Audit and Assurance - Data Analytics - Manager

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Job Description & Summary

The Opportunity

Join our Acceleration Center India and help shape the future of business for our diverse client portfolio across geographies and jurisdictions. You’ll work at the heart of global teams across Advisory, Assurance, Tax and Business Services—solving real client challenges through connected collaboration. We’ll help you grow your skills so you can go further. With hands-on learning, cutting-edge tools and an inclusive culture, this is your opportunity to do inspiring work that makes a difference—every day.

As an Audit and Assurance - Data Analytics - Manager, you will play a pivotal role in providing independent and objective assessments of financial statements and internal controls, enhancing the credibility and reliability of information for various stakeholders. Within our Assurance practice, you will assist clients in developing solutions that build trust, drive improvement, and detect, monitor, and predict risk using advanced analytics and automation tools. Your work will focus on establishing processes and structures that enable clients to make informed decisions based on accurate and trustworthy data.

As a Manager, you will lead teams and manage client accounts, focusing on strategic planning and mentoring junior staff. You are accountable for project success and maintaining standards, motivating and inspiring others to deliver quality. You will be responsible for coaching, leveraging team members' unique strengths, and managing performance to meet client expectations. With your growing business knowledge, you will identify opportunities that contribute to the success of our firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values meaningfully. Embracing technology and innovation, you will enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

In this role at PwC Acceleration Center India, you will take ownership of projects, confirming their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion. You will also develop skills outside your comfort zone and encourage others to do the same, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.

Responsibilities

• Joining weekly team leader meetings 

• Leading project teams and having oversight of keeping to deadlines and budgets 

• Owning and delivering client engagements 

• Data management, including data extraction and data cleansing processes 

• Analytics and reporting, including visualisation of data to help organisations manage business risk establish the right controls, processes and structures to ensure that information can be trusted and improve decision-making 

• Advanced analytics, where we use data science techniques to help our clients navigate future risks and opportunities through predictive and prescriptive analytics 

• Enhancing & building strong relationships with the engagement Teams and clients. 

• Will be responsible for overseeing their team members performance of testing in this area, monitoring workload, timelines and budgets for the work being performed.  

• The role provides an opportunity for the individual to interact with territory audit teams to articulate the objectives and testing results. 

What You Must Have

• At least a Bachelor's degree in one of the following fields of study: Accounting, Finance, Management Information Systems, Management Information Systems & Accounting, Computer and Information Science, Computer and Information Science & Accounting, Information Science, Economics, Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance & Technology, Business Administration/Management, Engineering, Accounting & Technology, Technology, Mathematics, Statistics, Mathematical Statistics and/or other relevant degree
• B.Tech/BE/M.Tech/ME (preferably computer science), Bachelors or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Data Analytics or Accounting/Commerce. with minimum 7 years of relevant experience. 
• Candidates with “Big 4” or equivalent experience would be preferred.
• Oral and written proficiency in English required

What Sets You Apart

• Basic finance process knowledge (Order to Cash, Financial Services etc) and how ERPs manage and structure the data  

• Audit experience, and experience of applying data analytics within the external audit process 

• Use of technology in data & analytics including for use in providing managed services 

• Experience working with financial services institutions OR commercial sector experience (retail, manufacturing, transport, logistics, FMCG, pharmaceutical, etc.) and a desire to specialise in one of these two areas 

• Experience working in financial reporting, financial accounting, regulatory compliance, or internal audit    
• Knowledge and experience of at least three of the following: 

• Data extraction from financial accounting systems 

• Data cleansing techniques and tools 

• A vision of how data analytics are going to be applied and development in the external audit practice 

• Understanding of key accounting principles and process cycles including revenue to receivables, purchase to cash 

• Data analytic technology such as Alteryx, SQL, Python, DataBricks, 

• SQL (preferably SQL Server) and data manipulation 

• Use of visualisation technologies such as Power BI. 
  
  

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